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PRESS CONFERENCE: MASS ACTION AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY AND MA FAMILIES CALL MARCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH GEORGE FLOYD

Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 3, 2021 Filed Under: National Wire, News, News to Us

The group demands the conviction of all four officers and calls for the prosecution of the police, reopening all past cases of police brutality in MA.

Filed Under: National Wire, News, News to Us Tagged With: Boston Police Department, Mass Action Against Police Brutality, press conference

BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT BODY CAMERAS REVEAL VIOLENT BEHAVIORS

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted December 30, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mass Action Against Police Brutality is demanding the persecution of police.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: body cameras, Boston Police Department, Mass Action Against Police Brutality, Protest, Rachael Rollins

THE WORLD IS WATCHING “TRIAL 4.” SO SHOULD YOU

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 17, 2020 Filed Under: Dear Reader

They built the broken system still in place today, and they have the nerve to praise it.

Filed Under: Dear Reader Tagged With: Boston Police Department, John Mulligan, Sean Ellis, Trial Four

C-CHANGE: IF THERE WAS EVER A CHANCE FOR BPD REFORM, IT IS NOW

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 20, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

With follow-through, Boston could have a BPD that resembles the force that officials have always pretended we have.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston Police Department, Boston Police Reform Task Force, mayor Marty Walsh, transparency

YOU FIRST: A RESPONSE TO BPD’S APPARENT THREAT TO STUDENT PROTESTERS

Written by HEIDY SALAMA Posted October 6, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

"The BPD threat in play is, frankly, nothing less than an insidious and blatant attempt to scare and silence young activists."

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Boston colleges, Boston Police Department, free speech

FLAW PATROL: HOW LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT USES OVERSEAS THREATS TO MILK OVERTIME

Written by OLIVIA DENG Posted January 29, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“Increased patrols do not protect anyone ... they are actively harmful to poor and oppressed people who are routinely harassed, brutalized, and surveilled by the police in Boston and across the country."

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACLU, Alex Marthews, Boston Police Department, Boston Research Intelligence Center, BPD, BRIC, details, Digital Fourth, fusion centers, immigration, iran, Muslims, overtime, police accountability, racial profiling, see something say something, surveillance

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE QUIET ONE

Written by Posted November 26, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

40 years ago this month, Fred Clay was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. After 38 years behind bars, he’s telling his story and writing another chapter.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police, Boston Police Department, BPD, corrections, criminal justice, Dan Conley, doc, Fred Clay, hypnosis, incarceration, jail, Jon Kater, law enforcement, lawyers, LWOP, Mass DOC, parole, Police, prison, prosecutorial corruption, Sean Ellis, Suffolk County District Attorney

SPECIAL FEATURE: CRIPPLED EPISTEMOLOGY

Written by JONATHAN RILEY Posted August 9, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Boston researchers have spent years helping government agencies plan and simulate operations to troll potential terrorists. Despite controversial practices and lackluster results, the covert operations continue.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, BRIC, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, DARPA, DHS, Donald Trump, Facebook, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, ISIS, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Lone Wolf, MKULTRA, NSA, Persona, Pokemon, Robert Popp, Russian trolls, Sunstein, terrorism, US Army Special Operations Command, Usaamah Rahim, World War II

CAUGHT ON CAM-SHARE: BPD SEEKS ACCESS TO PRIVATE SECURITY CAMERAS, EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW SURVEILLANCE NETWORK

Written by DANIEL DEFRAIA Posted March 21, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

For now, the BPD wants to help officers more quickly locate and access footage. However, if the program expands beyond its small introduction—about 13 locations, according to BPD records—it could develop into a centralized surveillance network.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Big Brother, Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, cameras, deputizing cameras, Dorchester, Dorchester Reporter, spying, surveillance

THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 22, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

 

Photo by Kori Feener

 

Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right

 

Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: Boston Police Department, BPD Commissioner Evans, civil liberties, Democracy, free speech, government, left wing, Mass State Police, mayor Marty Walsh, police brutality, Protest, right wing, riot cops, shitposter, social justice, ultra right

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